THESTAR.COM Google’s contentious new privacy policy officially takes effect Thursday, despite some objections from Canada’s privacy commissioner and others around the world. Google insists it had users in mind when it consolidated the privacy policies for most of its more than 70 products and streamlined the text. The main concern being raised by most critics is how Google will now start saving user information collected from all its services in one place. For example, users who log into several different services — such as Google.ca, Gmail and YouTube — will have data about all their searches and clicks stored together.
“Our new privacy policy makes clear that, if you’re signed in, we may combine information you’ve provided from one service with information from other services. In short, we’ll treat you as a single user across all our products, which will mean a simpler, more intuitive Google experience,” wrote Alma Whitten, Google’s director of privacy, product and engineering, in a blog post to users. Users can stop this data consolidation from happening by staying logged out when using the search engine or YouTube, or by having separate log-ins for each different site.
“Our new privacy policy makes clear that, if you’re signed in, we may combine information you’ve provided from one service with information from other services. In short, we’ll treat you as a single user across all our products, which will mean a simpler, more intuitive Google experience,” wrote Alma Whitten, Google’s director of privacy, product and engineering, in a blog post to users. Users can stop this data consolidation from happening by staying logged out when using the search engine or YouTube, or by having separate log-ins for each different site.
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